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A large number of containers are stocked at the Jiaxing Port. [Photo/jiaxingren.com]

The cargo throughput of Jiaxing Port reached 129 million metric tons from January to November, up 6.1 percent year-on-year, while the port's container throughput experienced an increase of 19.75 percent year-on-year to 3.11 million TEUs, setting a new record.

The total foreign trade throughput at the port increased by 16.23 percent year-on-year to 150.19 tons, the highest growth rate in Zhejiang province.

The port's near-sea shipping lines, especially the Japan route, also developed steadily, attracting more enterprises from surrounding areas. From January to November, the Japan shipping line’s container throughput surged 47.3 percent year-on-year, reaching 100,200 TEUs.

Jiaxing Port also leveraged its unique advantages in sea-river intermodal transport and completed a sea-river intermodal container throughput of 895,200 TEUs, an increase of 25.93 percent year-on-year.

Jiaxing Port has continued to increase its efforts in the construction of shipping lines. It has opened the province's first batch of 64-TEU inland waterway container routes, introduced seven new shipping lines, and increased the number of sea-river intermodal container routes to 29.

Jiaxing currently has about 160 container ships with a capacity of 64 TEUs or more, and the total transport capacity of sea-river intermodal ships docking at Jiaxing Port has exceeded 6,000 TEUs.